Improvement in paving-bricks



' OVE-RMY ER Improvement in Paving-Bricks.

N0. 130,589. Patefited A ug. 20,1872.

. OVERMYER,

JOHN OVERMYER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAVING-BRICKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,589, dated August 20, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Bricks for Paving, invented by JOHN of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana.

My invention relates to bricks for paving.

sidewalks and other similar purposes, and it consists in the arrangement of grooves or corrugations, formed in the upper surface of the bricks in such a manner as to render them susceptible of being laid in either diagonal or herring-bone or English-bond plan, and at the same time preserve the continuity of the grooves or channels across the pavement, whereby the water may be cond ucted freely off, and slippery or sloppy pavements may be avoided.

Figure 1 is an edge view of a brick having grooves arranged to embody my invention. Fig. 2 shows the upper surface of the bricks,

and as laid in the herring-bone or diagonal manner. I

A represents the bricks, a the grooves, and 00 the intervening spacesbetween the-grooves, arranged as ,clearly shown in the drawing. It will be observed that it is by means of the arrangement of the grooves that the intervening spaces 0 are made to match in the manner shown, and by which I am enabled toachieve the purposes above set forth.

Claim. I claim as my invention- Bricks formed with grooves and intervening spaces, arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth. I

JOHN OVERMYER. Witnesses:

ALEX. HERON, O. F. MAYHEW. 

